Moses Mendelssohn Quotes

#1. According to Miller, Pharisee Judaism is not a religion at all, but a secret society posing as a religion, a "sect with Judaism as a rite." She cites Moses Mendelssohn who wrote "Judaism is not a religion but a Law religionized."

Edith Starr Miller

#2. The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.

Moses Mendelssohn

#3. 'The Graduate' must be the best use of songs ever in a movie; it adds a layer to the movie you wouldn't ever get from a score.

Hans Zimmer

#4. My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths

Moses Mendelssohn

#5. The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

Moses Mendelssohn

#7. Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.

Moses Mendelssohn

#8. Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

Honore De Balzac

#9. The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.

Moses Mendelssohn

#10. The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.

Moses Mendelssohn

#11. The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.

Moses Mendelssohn

#12. Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence.

Moses Mendelssohn

#13. Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.

Moses Mendelssohn

#14. Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction.

Moses Mendelssohn

#15. A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present.

Moses Mendelssohn

#16. Prayer is better than pills.

Carla H. Krueger

#17. What is truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe.

Edith Wharton

#18. you've touched me
without even
touching me.

Rupi Kaur

#19. When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.

Moses Mendelssohn

#20. When you do something you love, you have a passion for it. It comes naturally. Staying true to yourself and doing what you love keeps you going ... everything else falls into place.

Christian Louboutin

#21. Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds.

John Lawler

#22. Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God.

Moses Mendelssohn

#23. An empowered person will recognize that they have agreed to the reality presented.

Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble

#24. Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.

Moses Mendelssohn

#25. With gospel-centered productivity, peace comes first, not second. the mistake we often make is to make peace of mind the result of things we do rather than the source.

Matt Perman

#26. For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.

Moses Mendelssohn

#27. Reader! To whatever visible church, synagogue, or mosque you may belong! See if you do not find more true religion among the host of the excommunicated than among the far greater host who excommunicated them.

Moses Mendelssohn

#28. You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes.

Moses Mendelssohn

#29. Since I tend to write chronologically, the middle is always the place where the process is most taxing.

Robert Paul Weston

#30. Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.

Moses Mendelssohn

#31. I am, therefore there is a God.

Moses Mendelssohn

#32. Judaism was not a religion but a law.

Moses Mendelssohn

#33. We would be able neither to remember nor to reflect nor to compare nor to think, indeed, we would not even be the person who we were a moment ago, if our concepts were divided among many and were not to be encountered somewhere together in their most exact combination.

Moses Mendelssohn

#34. Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.

Moses Mendelssohn